This covers: Economic conditions, tourism and voodoo in NOLA. Newsweek Global. (2014). Voodoo 2.0.Newsweek Global, 163(9), p92-98.
2. Talk abstract
Mary Adams
“Dancing in the Eye of the Storm: How Natural Disasters Affect Voodoo Practices in New Orleans” Adams, M. (ND). Proceedings from Fall 2014 Sociology Honors Colloquium. Austin, TX.
"Voodoo is a religion saturated in the City of New Orleans and, as is the nature of religions, Voodoo addresses the daily problem of human suffering.
For my thesis, I investigate how Voodoo makes sense of large-scale suffering caused by natural disasters. I focus on how the New Orleans Voodoo community adapted after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005"
1. Feminism and Voodoo Female empowerment being affected by voodoo and the resisting of sexism/racism. Green, T. (2012). Voodoo feminism through the lens of jewell parker rhode's voodoo dreams. Women's Studies. 41(3), p282-302.
2. Voodoo Feminism II
Very useful, 10/10 use "Fandrich counts Laveaux among the nation's most powerful African American women leaders including such luminaries as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. In the case of Laveaux and Tubman, the two women shared much in common. Though great differences in social status, religion, ethnicity, and geography separated them, both women defied the repressive slave regime in which they lived; both were driven by the power of their religious beliefs; both were illiterate and suffered economic hardship despite their achievements; both had an electrifying effect on those with whom they came in contact; and both were lionized during their lifetimes." Bell, C. (2008). The mysterious voodoo queen, marie laveaux: a study of powerful female leadership in nineteenth-century new Orleans. Labour/Le Travail. 61. 278-280.
1. KKK voodoo art
Could be used to demonstrate how blacks use voodoo to fight back against racism. "Crude dolls with pointed hoods, constructed of burlap and stuffed with what looks like BBs, hang from the wall, splattered with drippings of melted red wax. Klan dolls are shoved into miniature wooden coffins. Christenberry's use of dolls conjures images of voodoo. The hooded figures poked with sewing pins. A white satin cloth festooned with red sequins spelling out "KKK" looks a lot like a Haitian voodoo flag. Is Christenberry comparing the Klan to the religious tradition? Or is he using voodoo symbolism to excise their evil? If so, it's ironic that he uses the tools of a practice rooted in West African traditions to punish bad white folks." Witlz, T. (2008, February). A 'klan room' filled with relics, but empty of import. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=ade996dd-7757-4c14-986c-68ef34c4c340%40sessionmgr4001&vid=0&hid=4211&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d&preview=false#AN=WPT194204710908&db=nfh .
2. Fear of Voodoo created by whites
"According to the author, these accounts racialized and eroticized Voodoo practices in order to support the social constructions of black criminality and hyper sexuality which justified white supremacy and political violence." Gordon, M. (2012). "Midnight scenes and orgies": public narratives of voodoo in new orleans and nineteenth-century discourses of white. American Quarterly. 64(4), 767-786.
New Orleans
1. French Quarter Voodoo Tourism "For the truly curious, there is the Voodoo Spiritual Temple on Rampart Street. The temple seeks to educate people about the voodoo religion and offers such services as African bone readings; but it also operates a gift shop where you'll find medicine, fertility and "rain fetish" dolls and other carved figures.
The spirit world is a minor industry in the French Quarter, with several companies offering ghost tours, voodoo tours and cemetery tours" McLeod, D. *(2007). French quarter offers far more than just bourbon street. Business Insurance. 41(16), T14-T19.
It is Not as Weird as it Sounds.
Weather
Post Katrina:1. Voodoo in NOLA after Katrina
This covers: Economic conditions, tourism and voodoo in NOLA.Newsweek Global. (2014). Voodoo 2.0. Newsweek Global, 163(9), p92-98.
2. Talk abstract
Mary Adams
“Dancing in the Eye of the Storm: How Natural Disasters Affect Voodoo Practices in New Orleans”
Adams, M. (ND). Proceedings from Fall 2014 Sociology Honors Colloquium. Austin, TX.
"Voodoo is a religion saturated in the City of New Orleans and, as is the nature of religions, Voodoo addresses the daily problem of human suffering.
For my thesis, I investigate how Voodoo makes sense of large-scale suffering caused by natural disasters. I focus on how the New Orleans Voodoo community adapted after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005"
Marie Laveau
1. Roadtrippers take on VoodooCovers: Marie Laveau, Inserted quotes about Laveau, Laveau II and swamp practices, and part of the obit for Laveau.
Danger, T. (2014, October). Mistress marie laveau: the real story of the voodoo queen of new orleans. Roadtrippers. Retrieved from
https://roadtrippers.com/stories/mistress-marie-laveau-the-voodoo-queen-of-new-orleans?lat=40.80972&lng=-96.67528&z=5
2. Laveau's life
Part of the roadtripper article, more in depth on ML.
Part of her obit and a timeline of her rise to fame.
Strange History. (2012, March). Marie catherine laveau: voodoo queen of new orleans (september 10, 1801- june 15, 1881). Strange History. Retrieved from
http://www.strangehistory.org/cms/index.php/archive21/55-marie-catherine-laveau-voodoo-queen-of-new-orleans-september-10-1801-june-15-1881
Empowerment
1. Feminism and VoodooFemale empowerment being affected by voodoo and the resisting of sexism/racism.
Green, T. (2012). Voodoo feminism through the lens of jewell parker rhode's voodoo dreams. Women's Studies. 41(3), p282-302.
2. Voodoo Feminism II
Very useful, 10/10 use
"Fandrich counts Laveaux among the nation's most powerful African American women leaders including such luminaries as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. In the case of Laveaux and Tubman, the two women shared much in common. Though great differences in social status, religion, ethnicity, and geography separated them, both women defied the repressive slave regime in which they lived; both were driven by the power of their religious beliefs; both were illiterate and suffered economic hardship despite their achievements; both had an electrifying effect on those with whom they came in contact; and both were lionized during their lifetimes."
Bell, C. (2008). The mysterious voodoo queen, marie laveaux: a study of powerful female leadership in nineteenth-century new Orleans. Labour/Le Travail. 61. 278-280.
3. Voodoo's impact on Gays
From HuffPost, also deals with the finer points of the religion and briefly touches on white fear.
Talks about how voodoo works when you are gay and how accepting it is, gives religions details.
Monroe, I. (2011). The roots of voodoo's acceptance of gays. Huffington Religion. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/vodous-acceptance-of-gays_b_821215.html.
White Fear
1. KKK voodoo artCould be used to demonstrate how blacks use voodoo to fight back against racism.
"Crude dolls with pointed hoods, constructed of burlap and stuffed with what looks like BBs, hang from the wall, splattered with drippings of melted red wax. Klan dolls are shoved into miniature wooden coffins. Christenberry's use of dolls conjures images of voodoo. The hooded figures poked with sewing pins. A white satin cloth festooned with red sequins spelling out "KKK" looks a lot like a Haitian voodoo flag. Is Christenberry comparing the Klan to the religious tradition? Or is he using voodoo symbolism to excise their evil? If so, it's ironic that he uses the tools of a practice rooted in West African traditions to punish bad white folks."
Witlz, T. (2008, February). A 'klan room' filled with relics, but empty of import. Washington Post. Retrieved from
http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=ade996dd-7757-4c14-986c-68ef34c4c340%40sessionmgr4001&vid=0&hid=4211&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d&preview=false#AN=WPT194204710908&db=nfh .
2. Fear of Voodoo created by whites
"According to the author, these accounts racialized and eroticized Voodoo practices in order to support the social constructions of black criminality and hyper sexuality which justified white supremacy and political violence."
Gordon, M. (2012). "Midnight scenes and orgies": public narratives of voodoo in new orleans and nineteenth-century discourses of white. American Quarterly. 64(4), 767-786.
New Orleans
1. French Quarter Voodoo Tourism
"For the truly curious, there is the Voodoo Spiritual Temple on Rampart
Street. The temple seeks to educate people about the voodoo religion and offers such services as African bone readings; but it also operates a gift shop where you'll find medicine, fertility and "rain fetish" dolls and other carved figures.
The spirit world is a minor industry in the French Quarter, with several companies offering ghost tours, voodoo tours and cemetery tours"
McLeod, D. *(2007). French quarter offers far more than just bourbon street. Business Insurance. 41(16), T14-T19.
Explains Voodoo well:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/saumya-arya-haas/what-is-vodou_b_827947.html